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[Lizzie_Zoom]

Brunels loading gauge was not great - he liked the carrages to ride between the wheels.

As to that idea - try it with the main train doing 125mph.

They could get from London to Brighton in four minutes when I was a child....................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7GXWuTwkF8

and I believed it

lol   

When the Beatles released A Ticket To Ride in 1965 on Top Of The Pops they showed a film trailer of the front view, looking forward, from a London to Brighton train that was speeded up to start and finish within the time of the record. Great stuff! 8-) 8-) 8-)

PS I don't think your film is the same as ToPs used

[splott]

For those interested this is a GWR pair of slip coaches in the 1930s that have just been separated from an express train:




 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

How did they pick them up again without stopping, or did they shunt them back to the original starting point?
The concept that I originally posted just shuffles the passenger modules. Seems a lot more efficient to me.
Mind you, I do prefer the look of the old coaches though .

[splott]

Brunels loading gauge was not great - he liked the carrages to ride between the wheels.

As to that idea - try it with the main train doing 125mph.

They could get from London to Brighton in four minutes when I was a child....................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7GXWuTwkF8

and I believed it

lol   

When the Beatles released A Ticket To Ride in 1965 on Top Of The Pops they showed a film trailer of the front view, looking forward, from a London to Brighton train that was speeded up to start and finish within the time of the record. Great stuff! 8-) 8-) 8-)

PS I don't think your film is the same as ToPs used

This film was way before ToPs was thought about I was only 4 or 5 years old then
but I do remember Pans People, say no more

[Lizzie_Zoom]

For those interested this is a GWR pair of slip coaches in the 1930s that have just been separated from an express train:




 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

How did they pick them up again without stopping, or did they shunt them back to the original starting point?
The concept that I originally posted just shuffles the passenger modules. Seems a lot more efficient to me.
Mind you, I do prefer the look of the old coaches though .

They didn't Splott, as any attempt to "slip on" a coach was not successful, I think for obvious reasons!

But as I am led to believe they collected them up using all station stopping trains, with them being re-connected to the expresses at the main termini.

That of course was a bit of a weakness in the system!

[Seth]

'T O P S' is railway jargon for Total Operations Process System.

[splott]

'T O P S' is railway jargon for Total Operations Process System.

You  know where mind was then